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Will burning leaves at the base of a tree kill ants in the tree?
No, it will just make them go inside the tree to get out of the smoke!
Do gray tree frogs eat ants?
Gray tree frogs primarily feed on insects such as beetles, flies, moths, and crickets. While they may eat ants opportunistically if they come across them, ants are not a main part of their diet.
Ant and acacia tree?
The ant and the acacia tree have a mutualistic relationship. The ant depends on the sugar provided by the tree's nectar. In turn, the tree is protected by these ants from insect pests that could harm it.
What do Nigriceps ants prey on?
Nigriceps ants have adapted to their surroundings by making their homes in the Swollen Thorn Acacia tree. The ants prune the growth of the tree to ensure that it grows vertically and is difficult to attack by other ants. The environment is too wet or too dry by times for them to nest on the ground.
What is the symbiosis relationship between ants and the acacia tree?
They have a mutual relationship. At the base of the thorns of the acacia tree there are hollow lumps which the ants can turn into a hive. When animals, such as giraffes, start to eat the soft acacia leaves it vibrates the stems and the ants come out and attack the intruder annoying the giraffe so much that it stops eating at the acacia and moves on to find a less irritable meal. The tree then repays the ants by giving off a sweet nectar that the ants use to feed to there larvae. The ants also patrol down and around the base of the acacia and not eat but chew and destroy any other alien saplings growing in the vicinity of the acacia (not using a single bit of the destroyed plant). It is almost as if the ants know they are helping the acacia dominate and get as much water as possible.
What will happen if the ants were removed from the acacia tree?
If the ants were removed from the acacia tree the trees would be stripped of their leaves by elephants. The ants serve as a defense mechanism for the trees.
What would happen if a ring of a bark and camium layer were removed from arounf the trunk of the tree?
The tree will die.
Can fire ants kill a tree?
Fire ants can damage a tree by nesting in its roots and causing stress, but they typically do not directly kill a healthy tree.
Should you cut down a tree if there are ants in it?
I don't believe that you should cut down the tree, because ants are a vital part of our Eco system. But it depends on the type of ants like if their big red ants and you kids who climb the tree often you should consider it.
Are ants protecting a tree that produces the ants only food a parasitism?
It can be. For example, when ants protect scale insects on a tree because they feed on honeydew from the scales, then they are really using material from the tree that they get from the scale that parasitises the tree directly. However, while they protect the tree from other animals, they also prevent the enemies of the scale from clearing the scale from the tree, even if they keep other animals from attacking the tree directly. Sometimes such scale can kill the tree if one doesn't get rid of the ants. However, in some trees, such as the trees called whistling thorns, ants do the tree little harm and the tree actually grows parts that the ant can eat. Such ants attack giraffes and antelopes that otherwise feed on the tree. That is not so much parasitism as what we call mutualism. This means that both both the ants and the plant win from the deal.
What animals in Africa live in or eat the whistling thorn?
The whistling thorn has a symbiotic relationship with ants. The ants will defend the tree by biting the herbivores who try and eat it, and in return, the tree allows the ants to live in its dead thorns. If no herbivore comes by, and the ants are proving useless, the tree will stop its supply of necter that the ants drink, and shrink the thorns they live in
Are acacia tree ants poisonous?
yes
The ants and the acacia tree living together and both receiving benefit?
Yes because the tree will give shelter for ants when it's raining nd during summer for the tree she will be happy haha
What eats tree ferns in the rainforest?
beetles and ants!
Where are the green tree ants found?
They are found in australia.
Do fighting fish eat ants?
Ants are not usually fed to Betta splendens in captivity but in the wild tropical rainforests, tree ants would sometimes fall into water that would be occupied by Betta s. so tree ants would inevitably be a part of their natural diet.
The relationship between acacia trees and the ants that live on them is an example of?
Parasitism
